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Prince built a world of music so original and so far-reaching that it became impossible to separate the art from the man who created it. His story began with a devotion to songwriting and performance that took hold when he was still a child, setting the foundation for one of the most prolific careers in popular music. By the time he entered the studio to work on his debut album, For You, in 1978, he had already mastered multiple instruments and had developed a work ethic that dominated every creative decision he made. For You introduced listeners to a young artist who wrote, The post Complete List Of Prince Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the Department of War’s second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. Leavitt said at Monday’s press briefing that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorized Adm. Frank Bradley to carry out the second strike on Sept. 2, reportedly killing two people who survived the initial attack. Leavitt addressed the strike after a Washington Post report reported Hegesth ordered the military to “kill everybody.” Hegseth denounced the story as “fake news.” “President [Donald] Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that presidentially designated narco-terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war,” Leavitt said. “With respect to the strikes in question on Sept. 2, Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes.” “Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated,” she continued. The Biden administration allowed enough fentanyl to enter the country to “kill every American, man, woman and child, many times over,” Leavitt said. “That’s why you’ve seen a drastic difference in this administration’s policy with respect to the last,” she said, “and it’s one of the many reasons the American public reelected this president and support this secretary of war in conducting these strikes.” Hegseth held meetings with many members of Congress over the weekend who expressed concerns over the strikes, located mostly near Venezuela, Leavitt said. She said the administration has also held 13 bipartisan briefings to Congress on the strikes. “There have been a number of document reviews from members of Congress to review the classified DOJ Office of Legal Counsel opinion and other related documents,” she said. “Twenty-nine senators and 92 representatives have reviewed those documents, which is about two thirds of those that are Democrat members, and they have been made available to all 100 senators, all 435 members of the House, and to general counsels of the relevant committees on a bipartisan basis for their review.” The post White House Defends Strikes on Venezuelan Narco-Terrorists appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Millions of Americans may soon see changes to their television programming if a decades old broadcast restriction that impacts TV station ownership is modified. The Federal Communications Commission currently caps an entity from reaching more than 39% of U.S. TV households, but the federal agency is considering changing that rule. The longstanding federal regulation will likely be the topic of a Dec. 17 Senate Commerce Committee hearing, chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, where all three FCC commissioners are set to testify. The federal rule has divided Republican leaders. FCC chairman Brendan Carr has considered modifying the federal agency’s cap on commercial broadcasters in the past. “Over the decades, as the media landscape has evolved, the Commission has revisited these rules to account for new competitors and advances in technology,” Carr said in a statement released in June. “Those changes have only accelerated in recent years with the advent of online offerings. Broadcasters now compete for eyeballs with YouTube stars, social media platforms, and streaming services like Hulu and Netflix, not to mention traditional cable and satellite offerings,” the federal regulator continued. Carr went to explain that he believed the FCC had the authority to change the cap without further legislative action by Congress. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has expressed concerns about left-wing networks potentially expanding their footprints in the United States if the FCC cap is discarded. “If [lifting the FCC cap] would also allow the Radical Left Networks to “enlarge,” I would not be happy,” the president wrote in part on Truth Social, adding, “ABC & NBC, in particular, are a disaster–A VIRTUAL ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.” “They should be viewed as an illegal campaign to the Radical Left. NO EXPANSION OF THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS. If anything, make them SMALLER!” Trump added. However, the National Association of Broadcasters, a trade organization that includes major media companies, is in favor of ending the cap.  “Local broadcasters are not asking for special treatment; we are asking for the ability to compete in today’s media landscape,” NAB president and CEO Curtis LeGeyt said in a statement provided to The Daily Signal.  “Lifting the arbitrary 39% limit, which applies only to broadcast stations, will allow station groups to invest in local journalism, sports rights and the technology that keeps communities informed during emergencies, especially in smaller markets,” LeGeyt continued. “The national cap was imposed during an era before broadband and streaming reshaped how Americans get their news, and the longer Washington delays addressing it, the harder it becomes for local stations to sustain the trusted local news and reporting that Americans rely on every day. We appreciate Chairman Carr’s recognition that empowering local broadcasters will require modern ownership rules, and we look forward to swift FCC action,” the NAP president concluded. The Daily Signal reached out to Cruz’s office and the FCC for comment. The post FCC Considers Jettisoning Longstanding Rule Limiting Broadcasters appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Sunday, CNN State Of The Union host Dana Bash repeatedly quizzed Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) about a story first reported by The Washington Post, that back in September, the U.S. ordered a second strike on a boat in the Caribbean that was believed to be transporting drugs. The reported purpose was to kill the few survivors of the first strike, which some say would constitute a war crime. Mullin wasn't buying any of it.  Bash first brought the issue up to Democrat Senator Mark Kelly, currently under FBI investigation for his participation in the Democrat "illegal orders" video. She asked him about the report, and he said, that if the accusations are true, "it seems to" constitute a war crime. She then threw Kelly's answer at Mullin, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee:   BASH: ..Sources tell CNN that, in the first strike in September, one missile disabled the ship and killed many of the crew members, but when some survived that first strike, the military launched a second strike to kill anyone who was left. And these individuals were apparently unarmed, already injured from the original attack. Are you comfortable with that? MULLIN: Well, I don't know if I believe that at all, because we're doing alleged sources. Nothing has been verified by this. We do know that a survivor that did survive in later attacks was picked up by the United States Coast Guard or Navy, I'm not for sure, and was sent back to his country. You guys reported on that. So I doubt very seriously that took place...It's alleged. Nothing's been proven at all about this. No one's come out and said it was accurate. It's just somebody by alleged source that anybody can name or make up that this supposedly took place. Bash then  tried to insinuate that planned committee hearings that have been scheduled in the House and Senate on this and other issues was somehow proof of evidence.  BASH: The Republican chairman of your committee, Armed Services, in the Senate and the Republican Chair of the House Armed Services Committee have both taken enough, seen enough credence in this that they say that they are investigating in a bipartisan way.. They're promising vigorous oversight, to be precise... MULLIN: They didn't specifically name this issue. They said of the whole operation that's going on in international waters against the, these terrorist organizations trying to flood our streets...They didn't specifically name this particular situation.  None of these answers deterred Bash. BASH: ..If they do find that the Defense Secretary gave an order to eliminate people who were already injured on a boat, which a lot of legal experts say is illegal, Mark Kelly was just here and he said it's potentially a war crime. Should Pete Hegseth face consequences? MULLIN: Listen, you're once again making assumptions that's not even kind of accurate, I don't believe. All we're doing is talking about an assumption. This isn't been proven... Mark Kelly is saying the most ridiculous things I have ever heard right now...He's encouraging men and women uniform to question the orders of superior officers. He just got done saying that the President was racist because he doesn't like brown people. Yet I sit in front of you as a Cherokee Indian, and I'm very close friends with the President. He's losing credibility every single day. Your talking about once again is alleged over an anonymous source, which the media is really good about, always trying to name some anonymous source, but then they make a big deal about it as though this is true...I don't believe this at all...and I don't know why we are spending so much time on this... I think I do. Dana Bash, like much of the liberal media, presented the "drug boat" accusations as fact. When shot down by the "fact" that no one has gone on the record to make these accusations, she switched to scheduled congressional hearings, non-specific to this incident, to try to make her point. Senator Mullin spoke the truth, but it really didn't distract her from her desired narrative, making Trump and Hegseth look like war criminals. 

Kamala Harris and the DNC were repeatedly warned about the widespread fraud in Minnesota under the leadership of Democrat Governor Tim Walz during her 2024 presidential campaign, a group of nearly five hundred Minnesota Department of Human Services employees reported Monday. “[W]e did write to Kamala Harris and the DNC - multiple times - warning them about Tim Walz & his incompetence, fraud scandals and retaliation,” a post on the Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary (formerly, Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees) X.com account explained Monday: “We tried our best to keep the public informed as our tweets are public. Maybe Kamala Harris turned a blind eye to fraud like her running mate?” The employees shared a reply to then-candidate Harris back from September 11, 2024 warning her about the fraud taking place in their state and the harm being wrought by her running mate, Gov. Walz: “Ms. Harris, please listen to Minnesota State Employees who work everyday (sic) to deliver best services possible to our state & people who expect no less & pay our wages. Tim Walz has caused incredible harm to our state & agencies, retaliated against whistleblowers against fraud.” The post includes a chart of “Selected Minnesota Fraud/Waste Cases 2019-2024” listing 21 state-funded programs receiving a total of more than a half-billion dollars of taxpayer money. At the top of that list: Feeding Our Future – a $250 million fraud scheme that the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has been prosecuting and investigating since 2022, resulting in charges against 78 individuals and more than 50 convictions to-date. “When notifying Kamala Harris, we were hoping she would reconsider her choice of running mate,” the Minnesota Human Services employees explained in a follow-up post. “If Kamala Harris won and she had Tim Walz’s baggage, it would harm the country immeasurably.” Investigations into the Feeding Our Future scam contributed to the exposure of more apparent pervasive fraud involving other programs in Minnesota, The New York Times reported Sunday: “Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided.” In three schemes currently under investigation, taxpayers were reportedly bilked out of more than a billion dollars (total) by scam organizations pretending to provide social services. “Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota” and even retaliated against whistleblowers and attempted to discredit reports of fraud, the group wrote: "We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports.”

The anti-military sentiment that had been percolating for months on the set of ABC’s The View boiled over a bit on Monday. The suspiciously timed and anonymous accusations about alleged orders from War Secretary Pete Hegseth about eliminating alleged cartel drug smugglers from Venezuela gave the liberal ladies all the cover they needed to accuse American service members of “flat-out murder” and “war crimes.” All while admitting they were completely ignorant about international law. Fresh from shooting a soap opera in Italy, moderator Whoopi Goldberg led into the segment by suggesting other countries felt bad for America and alluded to America living under a dictatorship like Italy did: GOLDBERG: Oh yeah. But, you know, this is the thing about other countries, they've lived through this. They've gone through this. HOSTIN: You said that. GOLDBERG: They know what this is like and they're just biding their time saying when the people decide enough is enough, it will be enough.   Whoopi Goldberg returns from shooting a soap opera in Italy and explains that she didn't need to bring America's politics with her "because everyone there is aware." She says Italy and Europe understand the plight of Americans because they already lived under dictators:… pic.twitter.com/HfJUzxU7NT — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 1, 2025   “But apparently while I was gone some horrifying things happened,” Goldberg declared, using air quotes to describe how Hegseth had, “taken a lot of heat over a report that he had an order to kill everyone on board a Venezuelan boat of ‘alleged’ drug traffickers, which led to a second strike that killed the two survivors.” Ignoring the fact that the U.S. had declared drug cartels to be terrorist organizations, pretend independent co-host Sara Haines bloviated about how “we are not at war with Venezuela.” Then, without evidence, she accused all the service members involved of “flat-out murder” and “war crimes.” Haines also boasted that “this is why those Democratic vets put out that video last week that … they can refuse to act on an illegal order.”   Ignoring the U.S.'s war on drug cartels, Sara Haines accuses service members of "flat-out murder" and "war crimes." pic.twitter.com/CWj0wbtG7t — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 1, 2025   Of course, as the token former federal prosecutor, co-host Sunny Hostin’s job was to use her credentials to launder their accusations as a legal certainty. Despite admitting that she “can’t speak to the law of it” because she never practiced international law, maritime law, nor studied the Uniform Code of Military Conduct or the Law of Armed Conflict, Hostin spoke with exacting certainty of what the law was, how it was to be carried out, and suggest service members were criminally liable now: [Y]ou are supposed to take those fighters as war criminals, prisoners of war, and you are supposed to give them refuge and you're supposed to take care of them and then you are supposed to put them into a court of law. Instead, they killed them. That means the person who gave the order can be held accountable and put in prison, and that means the person that conducted -- the people who conducted the orders that pulled the trigger are also responsible and can be held accountable. So, now you have people that are serving their countries, that are serving this country as patriots, perhaps following an illegal order and then themselves can be court-martialed! Imagine that!   The View wants American service members put in prison. Admitting their speaking about something they're totally ignorant about, The View accuses War Secretary Pete Hegseth of a setting up soldiers to be charged for war crimes: SUNNY HOSTIN: I can't speak to the law of it, I'm… pic.twitter.com/Ocvbb6Mes2 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 1, 2025   Goldberg went a step further and suggested that those service members were intentionally hung out to dry by the administration, which Hostin agreed with: GOLDBERG: Well, what he has done is he's set them up. HOSTIN: Yes. GOLDBERG: He has set them up. HOSTIN: If it's true, yes. Hostin would go on to falsely claim the strikes happen “In the Venezuelan waters,” when they actually happened in international waters. “So this is not new, but he's setting our people up and it's not pretty,” Goldberg proclaimed after hearing about the strikes on 22 other boats. Goldberg was right when she said “this is not new,” but not in the way she thought. During the Obama years, the administration bent the rules about regarding air strikes when they were bombing Libya in 2011. And The View didn’t express outrage back then. The View’s hypocrisy wasn’t new either. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View December 1, 2025 11:03:06 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: It was crazy. But we had the best time and it was -- ANA NAVARRO: Starring in a fake soap opera sounds so much better than living through the real one. GOLDBERG: Well, one doesn't ever stop living in the real one. I didn't need to take I with me because -- because everyone there is aware. SUNNY HOSTIN: Are they? Are they? GOLDBERG: Oh yeah. But, you know, this is the thing about other countries, they've lived through this. They've gone through this. HOSTIN: You said that. GOLDBERG: They know what this is like and they're just biding their time saying when the people decide enough is enough, it will be enough. HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: So that's going to take what it is – [Applause] But apparently while I was gone some horrifying things happened. (…) 11:04:17 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: Then you have Defense [sic] Secretary Pete Hegseth. He’s taken a lot of heat over a report that he had an order to kill everyone on board a Venezuelan boat of “alleged” [air quotes] drug traffickers, which led to a second strike that killed the two survivors. He boasted about these strikes several times on social media, but denies the report and insists everything was done lawfully. (…) 11:06:09 a.m. Eastern SARA HAINES: Well, I know this is why those Democratic vets put out that video last week that people said ‘why would they need to say what's already obvious, that, you know, military personnel’ -- they don't need to -- they can refuse to act on an illegal order and people were like, yeah, but there's nothing like that. Well, this is a situation where there were clearly in the cameras two men on like part -- parts of the explosion and then they're killed. So the likelihood of this is it's not a -- we are not at war with Venezuela but it's murder, it's flat-out murder and anyone that acted on those orders could be held on -- on war crimes. HOSTIN: Yeah, that’s true. (…) 11:09:35 a.m. Eastern HOSTIN: I can't speak to the law of it. I don’t know. I'm not a geopolitical expert. But in terms of the law of it, you're right, Sara, that is why those Army vets explained do not follow -- you do not have to follow illegal orders. Do you know why? Because if this is deemed to have been war crimes, which by all accounts right now there are seven sources that said Pete Hegseth did say, ‘kill them all,’ even after there were two survivors, what you are supposed to do under international law, you are supposed to take those fighters as war criminals, prisoners of war, and you are supposed to give them refuge and you're supposed to take care of them and then you are supposed to put them into a court of law. Instead, they killed them. That means the person who gave the order can be held accountable and put in prison, and that means the person that conducted -- the people who conducted the orders that pulled the trigger are also responsible and can be held accountable. So, now you have people that are serving their countries, that are serving this country as patriots, perhaps following an illegal order and then themselves can be court-martialed! Imagine that! GOLDBERG: Well, what he has done is he's set them up. HOSTIN: Yes. GOLDBERG: He has set them up. HOSTIN: If it's true, yes. GOLDBERG: Listen, this is not the first time it's happened. This is like the fifth or sixth or seventh time. I mean, at some point somebody is responsible and the buck stops there. HOSTIN: Yes, it does. NAVARRO: Many more times than that. It's been happening since September. They have killed upwards of 80 people and I think -- HAINES: 22 boats. GOLDBERG: 22 boats. HOSTIN: Yes. In the Venezuelan waters. GOLDBERG: So this is not new, but he's setting our people up and it's not pretty. We will be right back.